Liam Sibai is a writer and artist from Beirut, Lebanon. His academic and artistic work often revolve around the creation and disintegration of social groups. More recently, he has been interested in interpreting and expanding on the work of his former professor Fares Chalabi. He received his BA in Art History from the American University of Beirut in 2021. He is currently pursuing a Master’s in Cultural Studies with a focus on heritage at KU Leuven. In 2021, he displayed Geo-Imposition at The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts as part of the Remote-Closeness exhibition. In 2022, Liam released Gone with the Wind Jabal Amel in collaboration with Ashkal Alwan. In May of 2023, his essay Rome on Both Sides of The Lebanese Civil War will be published with Koorts. It will be accompanied by a lecture entitled New Catholic Territoriality that he will give at KADOC, where he is an interning researcher.
Articles
The Narcissist Image
In his course Deleuzian Aesthetics Fares Chalabi presents an extended typology of mutually exclusive, rigorously defined image-types, or what I like to call aesthetic structures or aesthetic logics. An image-type or aesthetic logic is a form that structures the entirety of a work of art – take, for example, the ‘series’. The logic of series,… Read More »